Temperature monitoring and perioperative thermoregulation

Anesthesiology

Volumn 109, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 318-338

  Sessler, Daniel I ^a,b  

^a Department of Outcomes Research ^*

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALFENTANIL; ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIPYRETIC AGENT; ATROPINE; CLONIDINE; DESFLURANE; DEXMEDETOMIDINE; ENFLURANE; FENTANYL; HALOTHANE; ISOFLURANE; KETANSERIN; MAGNESIUM SULFATE; MIDAZOLAM; NEFOPAM; NITROUS OXIDE; OPIATE; PARACETAMOL; PETHIDINE; PROPOFOL; SEDATIVE AGENT; STEROID;

ARTERIOVENOUS SHUNT; BODY TEMPERATURE; COLD SENSITIVITY; CORE TEMPERATURE; DRUG EFFECT; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; FEVER; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIA; HYPOTHERMIA; NONHUMAN; PAIN; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SHIVERING; SKIN TEMPERATURE; SWEATING; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THERMOGENESIS; THERMOMETER; THERMOREGULATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VASOCONSTRICTION; METHODOLOGY; PATIENT MONITORING; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; BODY TEMPERATURE; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; SHIVERING; SKIN TEMPERATURE; SWEATING;

EID: 48849099141     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: 15281175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ALN.0b013e31817f6d76     Document Type: Review

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